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MADISON A VENUE at 45th STREET, NEW YORK 17, N. Y. - GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN the following schedule: THURS., JUNE I: the history of animation from 1933 to 1941. . . . FRI. THROUGH SUN., JUNE 2-4: eight short dance sequences from various films (1909-1936) featuring, among others, Anna Pavlova, Rudolph Valentino, Joan Crawford, and Fred Astaire. . . . FROM MON., JUNE 5: four documentary films produced by the Office of War Information. CIVILIAN WAR ACTIVITIES VOLUNTEER WORK-Hundreds of men and women are needed to fill emergency wartIme jobs. Four or- ganizations equipped to direct residents of the city into various kinds of work are listed below, along with a few of the mose.. pressing needs of the mo- ment. At the CIVILIAN DEFENSE VOLUNTEER OFFICE, 707 Fifth Ave., at 55th (PL 5-7300): women to work three hours a week in Department of Health clinics assisting in vision tests, etc.; men and women who, after taking a short training course, can work five hours a week for the Office of Price Administration, checking prices in neigh- borhood stores.... RED CROSS, 315 Lexington, at 38th (1'IU 4-4455): women to spend as much time as they can spare during the day making surgical dressings and filling kits for servicemen to take overseas; women to take an eighty-hour course and then work at least two full days each week as nurses' aides in hospital wards, clinics, etc.... AMERICAN WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERV- ICES, I I E. 58th (PL 3-6487): women to spend as much time as they can spare in A.W.V.S. work shops making layettes and children's clothes for Army and Navy relief; women to put in about three hours a week preparing and serving refreshments in war-plant cafeterias.... UNITED HOSPITAL FUND, 370 Lexington, at 41st (CA 5-7150) : women to work three hours a day, twice a week, as clinic aides, librarians, or aides in children's wards; men to serve in hospitals during the day or evening as messengers, elevator operators, porters, or dietary or ward aides. NOTE-The War Manpower Commission is recruit- ing volunteers for the V.S. Crop Corps, to harvest fruit and vegetable crops and to work in canner.ies during the summer and early fall. Applications can be made at the Farm Section of the V. S. Em- ployment Service, 44 E. 23rd (AL 4-8500). SALVAGE-Tin cans and wastepaper of all kinds should be kept separate from other refuse and given to your building superintendent, who will see that they both reach the proper authorities. Although cans in any condition are acceptable, it will facilitate handling if you flatten them after cutting out both ends. Wastepaper should be tied in easily-handled bundles.... The government urges that householders continue to save kitchen fat, used in the manufacture of explosives and sulfa ointments. Your butcher will give you two ration tokens for every pound you turn in to him. . . . Rags are urgently needed for use on ships, in war plants, and by mechanized forces. They can be turned over to any charity organization or junk dealer. SUBURBS AND COUNTRy-The setups for volunteer work and salvage collections are by no means uniform outside the city, but most communities have some sort of committee in charge of these activities. If your local police can't direct you to a convenient one, write for instructions to the War Council at your county seat. GIFTS, LOANS, ETc.-Russian War Relief, II E. 35th, is collecting practical clothing, in good condi- tion, to send to the Soviet. Bundles will be col- lected by most laundry drivers, or, for the address of the nearest receiving centre, call LE 2-4927. . . . Donors who wish to contribute blood to the Red Cross to send to field and base hospitals should call MV 5-6400 for an appointment. . . . Broken and worn-out phonograph records are being col- lected by Records for Our Fighting Men, Inc., 325 E. 38th, which will sell them for scrap and buy new records to send to service camps both here and abroad. For the address of the nearest receiving centre, call LE 2-0886. . . . The A. W. V.S., I I E. 58th (PL 3-6487, Ext. 33), will arrange to call for and distribute any - recreational equipment which you may care to contribute for servicemen. At the moment there is a demand for pocket-size books, small games, playing cards, portable phonographs, and radios. If the radios and phonographs are not in good repair, the A.W.V.S. will fix them up. . . . j\.-I usical instruments of all kinds, from ukuleles to pianos, are needed for Army and Navy hos- pitals, transport ships, and recreation centres. Contributions can be made to the Metropolitan Opera Guild, 654 Madison, at 60th (RE 4- 2 4 10 ), or to the Special Services Officer of the New York Port of Embarkation, Arsenal Bldg., 3 Ave. at 63rd, Brooklyn (WI 9-5400, Ext. 1476).... The Coördinating Council of French Relief Societies, 457 Madison, at 50th (PL 3-4571), is collecting French books to send to the thousands of French servicemen in thi;;; country and in Canada. Con- tributions should be taken or mailed to the Coun- cil's offices.